what better way to show off to your junior high programming class than making a DOS based Paintbrush application by hooking the mouse interrupt.
write a virus/worm/trojan to bring down the school's network?
I had forgotten about this, until you reminded me then. When I was at uni a friend and I had coded up a little program in Qbasic that pretended it was the standard login prompt and grabbed us the passwords.... We only tried running it a couple of times and I don't think we ever grabbed anyone's password, but it was amusing anyway....
Hmmmm... perhaps you had to be there.....
ZzzzSleep
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Quoth the AC:
Its easier to sqeeze 80+ hrs out of someone with out kids, house and a wife.
Damn! I'm only 24 and I've already managed to acquire a house, kids and a wife.
Meanwhile back on topic...
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that the programmers who have house payments/family to support are a lot less likely to just up and go on a whim. My boss knows that I need to pay the bills, feed the family, and so I'm not going anywhere. Whereas, some of my coworkers could decide that they want to go backpacking around Europe for the next six months, hand in their resignation and leave....
ZzzzSleep.
If you want a good perspective bender, check out Wicked: The life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West...
Another excellent perspective bender is a retelling of Snow White from the Queen's point of view. You can find it in the Neil Gaiman short story collection "Smoke and Mirrors".
If you're looking for some science fiction that can really make you think, then I can't recommend Greg Egan strongly enough.
I think that Intuit realised that if you treat all your customers as criminals, then they're not going to be very impressed. Perhaps Hollywood has been slow to realise this as there doesn't seem to be one single place where people can voice their complaints.
Could the Slashdot editors possibly have taken this seriously??! This is a small website with zero artists. A good thing I guess, but definetly not an industry revolution
Perhaps they thought it sounded like a good idea that should be encouraged. I think it's entirely possible that the first people to sell their music through FatChucks will have come from Slashdot.
The Egan story that goes into the most detail about replacing the brain with a crystal computer was called "Learning to be me". I also highly recommend "Diaspora" for potential ideas on what we can do to ourselves, once our minds are all just run on computers.
Assuming that it becomes possible to record every moment of your life and you're able to replay it at will, I have just one question.
When the heck would you get time to watch it all?
I think it's much more likely that there were only a few of these retail drives with CC numbers on them, but the ones that did have the numbers on them would have had a shitload of numbers.
I had to add this...
3. An animated version of "Treasure Island", set in space. "Treasure planet". Yuck!
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The Commodore 64 was good, but I didn't get one until the mid 90s, and it was sooooo slow loading any game from disk.
Yes, the C64 disk games were slow. The games that came on a cassette were MUCH slower though...
Were there many C64 games released on cartridges?
Mmmmmm.... plug it in, turn it on, instant gaming....
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Hmmmm... perhaps you had to be there.....
ZzzzSleep
Meanwhile back on topic...
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that the programmers who have house payments/family to support are a lot less likely to just up and go on a whim. My boss knows that I need to pay the bills, feed the family, and so I'm not going anywhere. Whereas, some of my coworkers could decide that they want to go backpacking around Europe for the next six months, hand in their resignation and leave....
ZzzzSleep.
If you're looking for some science fiction that can really make you think, then I can't recommend Greg Egan strongly enough.
I think that Intuit realised that if you treat all your customers as criminals, then they're not going to be very impressed. Perhaps Hollywood has been slow to realise this as there doesn't seem to be one single place where people can voice their complaints.
ZzzzSleep
Didn't they do this in Red Dwarf with their virtual reality codpiece? ZzzzzSleep
Nope. We won't standardise on Klingon. Instead, in a couple of years we'll all be speaking Chicken.
Let me guess... they engrave 'Elbereth' on the ground?
The Egan story that goes into the most detail about replacing the brain with a crystal computer was called "Learning to be me". I also highly recommend "Diaspora" for potential ideas on what we can do to ourselves, once our minds are all just run on computers.
Assuming that it becomes possible to record every moment of your life and you're able to replay it at will, I have just one question.
When the heck would you get time to watch it all?
I think it's much more likely that there were only a few of these retail drives with CC numbers on them, but the ones that did have the numbers on them would have had a shitload of numbers.
I had to add this... 3. An animated version of "Treasure Island", set in space. "Treasure planet". Yuck!
What wasn't there to like about Scooby doo?